Live beads can be eaten. Live beads is a famous specialty of Nanjing, belonging to the Jinling snacks, is when the egg is about to hatch into a life but not fully formed, the egg has been inside the head, wings, feet of the traces of the egg, this is also a chicken and egg egg hatchings called "live beads". This kind of egg is also called "live pearl". "Live pearl" is a chicken embryo developed through traditional hatching, because its developing blastocysts look like movable pearls under the state of perspective, so it is called "live pearl". It is called "chicken fetus" in Minnan language.

Live beads characteristics:

Live beads are very small chicken embryos have been hatched, most of the egg white and yolk, after cooking the egg is divided into two parts, one part of the relatively soft taste is good, the other part of the hard, very hard, more difficult to chew, cracked the shell of the juice don't pour, a drop of drink is very tasty, do not need any ingredients can be consumed with dipping sauce, because of the use of the ingredients instead of reducing the freshness of the live beads themselves. reduce the freshness of the live beads themselves.